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	'''William Robert Colvin Middleton''' (1863 – 8 December 1921) served as the Municipal Health Officer in Singapore from 1894 ~~(1893?)~~ to 1920.		'''William Robert Colvin Middleton''' (1863 – 8 December 1921) served as the Municipal Health Officer in Singapore from 1894 to 1920.

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	==Career==		==Career==
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William Robert Colvin Middleton (1863 – 8 December 1921) served as the Municipal Health Officer in Singapore from 1894 to 1920.

https://smj.sma.org.sg/1803/1803smj8.pdf

Early life and education

Middleton was born in Bombay, India in 1863. He was the eldest son of Revered William Middleton, a government chaplain in Kurachee. He was then brought to Aberdeen, Scotland, where he was raised. He studied at the Aberdeen Grammar School and later at the University of Aberdeen, from which he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1883 and as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1888.

Career

After graduating from university, Middleton spent a year as a resident at the Infirmary. He then had a brief assistantship in England, after which he left for Singapore. There, he joined a firm of doctors. He returned to Scotland in 1894 to obtain a Doctor of Public Health, after which he again left for Singapore. This time, he was appointed the Municipal Health Officer, succeeding Dr. Charles Eardley Dumbleton in this position.

He was also a "keen" member of the Singapore Volunteer Corps. A lieutenant-colonel and the Surgeon Major of the corps, he was involved in the 1915 Singapore Mutiny.

According to his obituary in the British Medical Journal, "So highly were his services valued that on his retirement he was, with the approval of the Government of the Straits Settlements, voted as generous honorarium by the Singapore Municipality".

Personal life and death

Middleton married Ethel Hunt on 29 April 1909 at the St Andrew's Cathedral.

He died on Dorset Road in Bexhill-on-Sea on 8 December 1921.

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